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The question for any serious wine lover is not, can you can afford the Wine Society’s £40 lifetime membership but, with £20 off your first order, can you afford not to join? Fringe benefits such as delivery, storage and voluminous tastings aside, TWS demonstrated, with mouthwatering highlights from its Spring collection, that in quality, variety and value, its list is the equal of any in the country.

You could make up a fabulous mixed case from any of these but with Easter around the corner, why not add a touch of class with the fragrant, spicy, richly black-fruited 2013 Zaha Mendoza Malbec, £20, the violet-perfumed, velvet-textured classic 2012 Einaudi Terlo Vigna Costa Grimaldi Barolo, £32, and the scented, sinewy, spicy 2010 Sagrantino, Scacciadiavoli, Montefalco, £18. Thank you and au revoir.

Easter is synonymous with Tuscany’s holy vin santo, aged five years in small casks for an immensely rich, intense dried fruits confection with beguiling aromas of toffee and grilled almond offset by a mouthwateringly zesty freshness. £19.49, half-bottle, Waitrose.